Sentence examples for instead of being caught up from inspiring English sources

One wishes Apple could be allowed to go back to doing what it does best – making money by making things – instead of being caught up in Wall Street's machinations.

Instead of being caught up in the rough and tumble of the Six Nations they have spent the last four years in the Rugby Championship, honing their game so that it is now a mixture of power and finesse rather than centred on the set pieces.

Instead of being caught up in feeling bad, guilty or shameful about said mistake, how can you flip your thinking so that you can learn from it?

I was ringed by 15-20 people taking pictures of us, with maybe a hundred more answering in concert to my nearly 4 year old daughter's chants, "My body, my choice!" To which the crowd enthusiastically responded, "Her body, her choice!" Instead of being caught up in this moment, I felt as though I was slipping from reality.

But none of them ever seemed to gel into recognisable human statements, leaving instead a feeling of being caught up within some closed circle of ritual meaning, like accidentally stumbling into a four-hour Syldavian Orthodox church service and feeling obliged to sit there mumbling through the incantations and helplessly mouthing along with the hymns.

He described being caught up in "scenes of war".

Instead, she's caught up in the whirlwind of politics, embezzlement and breakages that make up museum and family life.

I found myself losing grip of my authentic voice, and instead was caught up in a world of "shoulds": we "should" do this, we "should" do that.

Instead, these individuals are caught up in the vicious undercurrent that keeps prisons overflowing.

And all of them are caught up in scandals.

It's not a book you'll want to repeatedly take up and put down, because the most satisfying moments spent with it come after you're dozens of pages in, when you realize that instead of struggling against the current you've been caught up irresistibly in its powerful pull.